Notzilla
Certified Crap. CrapScore 69, rated by 1 admin.
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A Japanese scientist and a giant monster reach Cincinnati, where nuclear enthusiasm threatens to make everything worse. This deliberate kaiju spoof lets characters notice the subtitles and the storytelling machinery around them. The snappy comic pace makes the visible seams part of the game.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5.5/10
- Plot
- 8/10
- Effects
- 5.5/10
- Dialogue
- 7.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“Cincinnati has entered the giant-monster business with insufficient preparation.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 69
Synopsis and movie facts
A Japanese scientist accidentally releases a giant monster in the U.S., and must save it-and Cincinnati-before a crazed nuclear physicist destroys both.
- Released
- 2019
- Directed by
- Mitch Teemley
- Running time
- 79 min
Starring
- Frederic Eng-Li as Prof. Hiro Honda
- Tifani Ahren Davis as Dr. Shirley Yujest
- Tim Bensch as Dr. Richard Blowheart
- Samantha Russell as Pearl Stringer
- John E. Brownlee as Scientist (uncredited)
- Spencer Lackey as Bobby Bleech
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 615690. Review uses a different release year; the catalogue follows the canonical TMDB release date.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises comic pacing, fourth-wall jokes and the haiku confrontation.
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